Presenting to a church in 1547 (General)

by isherwop , Thursday, August 16, 2018, 21:36 (2284 days ago) @ DMF

This might be of interest. Yhe photographs did not copy across.
The Pauncefote Connection

The search for Hannah’s ancestors has been much more interesting and productive. The graveyard inscription indicated that her parents were Thomas and Elizabeth. A search for Hannah born of Thomas and Elizabeth about 1732 in Newent has only one candidate and this is Hannah Hall daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth baptised in Newent in 1732. Thomas Hall and Elizabeth Pauncefote were married at Newent on 23 October 1710 and the following children are recorded in parish records:

Date Name Residence Parish
28 Nov 1711 Thomas Compton Green Newent ( In Pauntley)
8 Dec 1714 Elizabeth Newent
27 Aug 1718 John Newent
11 May 1726 Robert Newent
8 May 1732 Hannah Newent

Thomas was buried on 29 Nov.1759 in Newent. We don’t know anything more about this family but we do know that a graveyard inscription for a later Thomas Hall who died in 1843 aged 87 and was also married to Elizabeth was “of Compton Green Farm suggesting that possibly our Thomas was also a farmer.

Elizabeth Pauncefote baptised 4 April 1684 at Newent is the daughter of Robert (a Gent) and Elizabeth Smooke . There is one other baptism for this family recorded in the Newent parish record and this is for Anne born 1686. Robert was the son of Grimbald Paucenfote who had inherited the Paucenfote estates.

We will not attempt to trace the Paucenfote family back any further as all the work has been done. An 1805 publication entitled “The Baronetage of England or The History of the English Baronets” by the Rev William Betham, which is accessible on Google Books, has a detailed ten page treatise on the Pauncefote family. Robert Pauncefote and his father Grimbald are both included in this book.

This is the ancestry as it appears in the book. The Paucefotev lineage is in blue with the Dalley link in Green.

The introductory section of the book reads as follows
“The family of Pauncenfote, whose surname has been at different periods been variously written, is of great antiquity, and knightly pre-eminence, in this kingdom: Bernard Pauncenfote being mentioned in the Domesday Book, as a considerable proprietor at Festerfield, in Whitshire, and in the hundred of Sunburne, in Hampshire, and as holding of the King in capite. His descendent, Richard Pauncenfote, obtained from Henry III a grant of the manor of Hasfield, in the county of Gloucester, in the 33rd year of his reign (1302); which estate was transmitted in uninterrupted succession to his posterity, until the beginning of the 17th century, when it was alienated by Richard Pauncefote, Esq.Hasfield passed through ten generations of Pauncefotes. Many of them were knights and held positions of importance.” However the history does not relate the turbulent last few years of the Pauncefote’s ownership. That story is recounted in the History of Gloucester volume 8. The manor was eventually inherited by a John Pauncefote in 1558. He went into exile in 1584 with his son also John because of his recusancy (failure to obey an authority or regulation) and another son Richard occupied the manor until 1598 when it was sold marking the end of 300 years of Paucenfote occupancy.

A baronency was granted to the Pauncefote family but this occurred at a much later date and is not relevant to the Lords of the Manor at Hasfield. The reason they are included in the book is because they were ancestors of the Baron.
Hasfield is a farming area with narrow country lanes and lovely trees about 10 km north of Gloucester and 13km west of Newent. .
Aerial photograph of Hadfield Court and surrounding garden and buildings with the Church on the right. Hasfield Court is on the left.
This photograph is of Hasfield Court as it is today built close to the site of the original
manor house. The house is now in private hands but the Church is accessible.

The book then goes on to give in a great mass of names dates and family events .leading eventually to the Baron. Here are the sections covering the earlier ancestors in the lineage that are in Dalley line. The Dalley are ancestors highlighted in bold type-